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There's nothing like a government shutdown to bring out the high-octane insults. Harry Reid calls House Republicans "fanatics" and "anarchists," Al Gore likens their strategy to "political terrorism," and White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer says the president isn't interested in "negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest.” All of which is "hyperbolic" and "inflammatory" but probably fine in terms of modern political rhetoric, writes Michelle Cottle at the Daily Beast. Here is what's not OK: Former Bush aide Matt Dowd and former Democratic Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm each have said the governments of Iran and Syria of late are sounding more rational than House Republicans.

"No. No. No. No. No," writes Cottle. "In the time-honored tradition of political labeling, you can be as nasty as you want so long as you keep the insults respectfully generic." That is, call people communists if you must, but don't compare them to Stalin. "Deride them as a dangerous anti-government lunatic, but don’t invoke the name of Timothy McVeigh." In other words, "keep it vague, people." Click for her full column. (Speaking of Iran, Jon Stewart brought up the connection last night in this rant via Salon. If Obama can "make a deal with the most intransigent, hardline, unreasonable totalitarian mullahs in the world, but not with Republicans, maybe he's not the problem," he observed.)

Each and everyone of the POS ass wipe republicans are most assuredly worse than the govts of Iran and Syria, these slug turds in congress could give a crap less about the American people, who these turd balls were elected to represent. Instead, they represent the special interest groups and the crooked lobbyists who contribute to their campaigns. Wake up America, we need to get rid of these turd balls ASAP, like in the next election cycle.

KeyserSoze

Oct 1, 2013 11:15 PM CDT

Nice PR photo shot. When asked months ago for a sit-down with the Dems, these ass clowns said "NO" 18 times....hypocritical POS"s

Mr.LarryG.

Oct 1, 2013 10:39 PM CDT

the GOP ploy is like not getting picked to play in a playground basketball game even tho u own the ball,so you take the ball home and nobody plays,,,,